So You Want a Definition of Fascism
Slavery existed before we named the system; the idea of stolen labor a fundamental principle to the ideology of the capitalist, yet predating the invention of the definition by millennia. In fact, it was chattel slavery, the reduction of human beings to a class of livestock, which truly sowed the seeds for what Capitalism is today. Indeed, the East India Trading Company was established in 1600 and what, if not capitalist, was it if not the seizure of the means of production and distribution from the commoner for the benefit of the lords and financiers of Europe? What was the Slave Triangle if not the express theft of the means of production in its rawest form for the use of landed elites in both the Old World and New?
Anti-LGBTQ+ Arabs? Sounds Sus.
If you wish to opine on the state of rights in Arab nations and countries, you should first recognize the material realities of the world in which they exist, the struggles which demand the vast majority of their daily energies and attention. Their can be no pro-equality movement while an occupying country bombs your neighborhood, steals your water, and limits the availability of food and medicine at will; no protections for the most vulnerable when all are stood naked before the same wall for execution.
Identity 2024: Race and Capital in the United States
Today, the United States finds itself in a perilous state; whether looking at the plight of the poor or our many communities of color (how too often these are interchangeable), it is all but impossible to ignore the intersections that exist between the two as all except the most wealthy, educated, and socially insulated continue to slide deeper into the sucking mire of a dying nation.
It’s Time For Trains, Not More Lanes
It is high time that New Mexico recognizes the flaws in our infrastructural dependence on non-renewable vehicle infrastructure that not only does little to alleviate ever-growing congestion but also furthers our dependence on dying oil and gas industries; exponentially draining our taxes for limited, short-term gains.
WhistlinDiesel, Direct-Action, and the Activist Youth
Redneck-tuber spurs youths and farmers to collective action, exemplifies effectiveness of direct-action tactics.
It’s Time to Talk About University of New Mexico
The historically significant campus has taken a stand against administrators’ continued complacency in the ongoing genocide in Gaza; the State of New Mexico and the University have doubled down on violence against students in response.
The Next New Wave
Columbia, in embracing the same tactics today as the likes of Berkeley then, has followed the playbook the latter employed to deal with discontent from student organizers; first employing rules of respectability against protestors before resorting to armed police and expulsion to quiet the loudest elements of their student body.
Iran Is The Only Adult In The Room
While Israel demands the last word, creating a secondary obfuscation of “retaliation” against reactions from Iran, the arrogant petulance of the Western project in the Middle East is made painfully clear. From their perspective, there is no premise of self-defense against their own aggressions, no idea of justified retaliation except in their own interests; if the empire kills a foreign official on their own soil, it is the cost of business and that cost will be subsidized.